Information from Richard Hayman: The first Gungrog Road Infant School was founded in 1875 and its location is marked on the 1886 and subsequent Ordnance Survey, on the opposite side of the road to the present school building. The new Gungrog Road Nursery and Infants School was built c.1950-53 to the designs of Montgomeryshire County Architect, Herbert Carr. This larger school was built to serve the growing population of Welshpool due to the post-war housing development on Gungrog Road and other parts, and was part of an extensive programme of school building in the former county in the two decades after 1945. The main Gungrog school building is single-storey, designed in Carr's distinctive mix of neo-Georgian and modernist. It is built of pale brown brick under hipped and gabled pantile roofs on deep projecting eaves. The Ordnance Survey 1964 map, however, shows two structures at right angles that do not conform to the school plan. Plans dated to 1961 and signed by Herbert Carr indicate planned additions and alterations to the building. Three demountable buildings were erected on the site in 1993 to create additional capacity.

The school later became the Gungrog Church in Wales Nursery and Infant School, which closed at the end of 2020 when the new Welshpool Church in Wales Primary School, located off Salop Road, was opened as part of Welsh Government's 21st Century Schools Programme. A Level 3 Building Record was conducted in April 2024 by Richard Hayman prior to the demolition of the school building and redevelopment of the site to provide sixteen bungalows.

M. Powel, RCAHMW. May 2024.

Sources: OS Historic mapping; Richard Hayman, 'Gungrog Church in Wales Infant School, Gungrog Road, Welshpool: Level 3 Historic Building Record', for Powys County Council. April 2024.